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The Leonard & Lois Schnitzer Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Leonard & Lois Schnitzer Charitable Foundation

All distributions be exclusively to benefit the oregon jewish community foundation (ojcf) or to carry out the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of ojcf, a public charity.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$80kRecreation & Sports$58kReligion$30kInternational$24kPhilanthropy$22kFood & Nutrition$13k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $48,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $80,800 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $32,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$7,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$10,400
BB360$10,000
THE OREGON HILLEL FOUNDATION$7,400
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILD SERVICES$7,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PORTLAND$7,000
COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILD SERVICES: $7k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILD SERVICES: $7k → 12%OREGON COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $7k → 12%OREGON COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $7k → 12%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $7k → 12%OREGON COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $6k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$205k · 7 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
0

Total granted

$205k
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BB
    B'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +1%
  • MJ
    MITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    4× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +75%
  • HT
    HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +39%

Funded once

    How this is measured

    Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Its field

    Closest unfunded matches

    The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

    1
    Jewish Family Service

    Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…

    Human Services
    2
    Jewish Mothers of Metropolitan Seattle
    Religion
    3
    National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
    —
    4
    Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington

    The mission of Hillel at the University of Washington (Hillel UW) is to inspire students and young adults (ages 18-35) to explore, embrace, and celebrate Jewish life and identity.

    —
    5
    Greater Portland Hillel

    To provide programming and support to undergraduate and graduate students in the greater portland, oregon area. to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students in the greater portland, oregon and southwest washington area…

    —
    6
    Jewish Federation of Lane County

    Promote Jewish Heritage

    Religion
    7
    Jewish Life Foundation
    —
    8
    Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

    The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

    Human Services
    9
    Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
    Youth Development
    10
    The Jerusalem Connection
    —
    11
    The University of Iowa Louis Shulman Hillel Foundation

    The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…

    —
    12
    The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

    Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

    Human Services
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Child Service; the most unlike its peers is Oregon Community Warehouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
    04the grantee network

    8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    8/8
    Grantees still filing
    5/8
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    MITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,800 · OtherMITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $30,400 · OtherHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CA…B'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION: $58,000 · Youth DevelopmentB'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOC…Oregon Community Warehouse Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesOregon Community Wa…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE: $14,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND C…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $24,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT …Jewish Federation of Greater Portland: $22,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Fed…MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $13,000 · Food & Nutrition
    Other$71,200Youth Development$58,000Human Services$39,000International$24,000Philanthropy$22,000Food & Nutrition$13,000

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetB'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION: $58,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,800 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $30,400 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetOregon Community Warehouse Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Portland: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    Co-funders

    Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

    Oregon Jewish Communi…The Oregon Community …The Holzman FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
    Oregon Jewish Community FoundationOR15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

    How this is measured
    Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization The Leonard & Lois Schnitzer Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leonard & Lois Schnitzer Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
    • Oregon Community Warehouse Inc: 24% of income from government
    • B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association: 7% of income from government
    • Mittleman Jewish Community Center: 2% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Leonard & Lois Schnitzer Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Leonard & Lois Schnitzer Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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